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How David Wright’s farewell also had a poetic opposing manager

A beloved infielder on a Hall of Fame track who spends his whole career in New York. A devastating back injury that shortens that career.

But enough about Don Mattingly.

If David Wright’s grand finale Saturday night didn’t carry enough bittersweet drama at Citi Field, there was Mattingly, Wright 1.0, in the visitors’ dugout as the Marlins’ manager. If the former Yankees captain can’t relate to every chapter and verse that Wright, the Mets’ captain, has experienced the last few years, he nevertheless knows the saga arguably better than anyone else alive.

“David’s [back] seemed to keep compounding.